Improved fruit-corer



-slide is drawn backward and forward.

treat sont ENOCH J. MARSTERS, 0F SHAWS ELAT, OALIFGRNIA..

Letters Patent N 196,706, dated August 23, 1870.

IMPROVED FRUIT-COREE The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference heilig had to the annexed drawing, making a part ot vthis speecation, and to the letters and figures of ret'- erence marked thereon. Y

Figure 1- ofthe drawing isa side 'view of' my invention. i 4

Figure 2 is an end view of the same. i

Figure is an enlarged side view ofthe coring and quartering cut-ter.

My invention has relation to certain improvements in devices for coring and qnartering apples, and consists in the construction of a sliding'frame, provided with prongs, arranged to carry the apple from the rotating prongs of the paring device through the cutters, and in the manner 'of hinging the cutters, whereby they are enabled to be' brought close to the apple when upon the paring prongs.

The lettel' Afof the drawing, designates the bedplate, ot' wood or metal. t

represents the nprights, which support the slide and the rotating shaft.

C designates the rotating shaft, having a small eircular head, c', furnished with prongs a.

i D represents the lower guide-rod or shaft, which passes through or under the uprights of the slide,

keeping it steady and tirm. 1

` E represents the horizontal bar of the slide, ti'om which the perpendicular arms d d extend downward.

`Ihesc'arms are perforated for the passage of the shaft C and lower guide-'rod D.

Depending from the forward end ot' the bar E is the head F, a broad plate, having acircular openil'ig, vu, in the center, of suflicient size 'to permit the hea-d e of the rotating shaft to pass freely through as the G designates the operating lcver,1 ivoted at a to the bed-plate, .and slotted at fr, to admit thc pin s of nected with aA tube, 71., of similar material, placed' at its center, by Yfour radial plates, y. Y

Ears, m., are attached to the hoopf, and serve' as a' hinge, when passed over the cylindrical end of the standard H.

A loop or latch, l, is also attached to the hoop f, and serves lto lock the hoop in position opposite to the apple, when placed on the prongs of 'the paringshaft.

The cutter K can be removed from the standards, f=desired. l

The operation of my invention may be thus de-v scribed v .n

After the apple has been pared, by any suitable device, and the paring-knife turned out of the way, the cutter K is revolved into place and latched. By means of the level' G, the slide E is thrown forward, strikingit-s prongs, zz, which extend tbrward from the head F into the apple, and forcing it from the paringfork. It is, by the same movement, carried forward through the cutter, beingrcored by the tube h, and divided into quartersby the 'plates or knives y y- In my arrangement the cutter is brought close to the paring-fork, leaving just room enough between tor the apple. Hence, in order to place another apple on the fork, the cutter must be unlatched and thrown around out of the way, or it may be removed altogether.

It may be observed that instead of a revolving motion, the cutter may be arranged to slide up or down on its standards when the apple is to be placed on the fol-k.

It is designed to apply my invention to any paring mechanism, the. head of the rotating t'ork heilig made small and compact, toenable the head of the slide to pass freely over it. l

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In combination with the slide E, having prongs z', and opening fu, the shaftG, with fork e and el, and the adjustable cutter K, when constructed and operated substantially as and for the purposes specitied.

2. In combination with the sha-ftvO, having fork e, and the lower guide-rod D, the slide E, having arms d d, and head1?, with opening a and prongs e' z, as

specified.

3. 'Iheadjustable coi-ing and qnartering cutter K, in combination with the standards H H', as specified;

In testimony lthat I claim the above, I have hereunto subscrbedm y name in the presence of two witness-es:

lVitnesscs; ENOCH J. A. BULLnnDIncn,

DAVID MAnCKLnY.

MARsTnns. 

